Vanessa Atkins

Vanessa Atkins

Editorial Director

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What I'm Listening to Now:

"This American Life" podcasts

My Favorite App:

LAPL to Go

What I'm Reading Now:

"Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary" by David Sedaris

Vanessa manages The Writers Room staff as well as developing editorial features and series ideas tailor-made for clients’ demographics and missions.

Before joining ACG, she most recently served as Editorial Director at GetBack.com, where she developed entertainment content for a variety of digital partners and supervised a team of in-house and freelance writers.

She worked for more than a decade at Rhino Entertainment Company, where she oversaw editorial content for various musical and historical pop culture projects, including the catalogs of such legacy artists as Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand, and the Grateful Dead, and she served as Editorial Supervisor on “Let It Bleed,” a 2008 book about the Rolling Stones.